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Thursday, April 17, 2008

GERMANY'S ECONOMIC GROWTH EXPECTATIONS REDUCED

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From FT ( link ): "Germany’s economic growth will “lose momentum” this year because of high oil and food prices, the strong euro and th...
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AVERAGE WORKING WEEK IN OECD COUNTRIES

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RISING FOOD PRICES

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Professor Gary Becker offers an opinion on why export restrictions on food and other prevailing measures of intervention and policy failures...

SELECTED READINGS IN ECONOMICS

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Here's my current reading list of economics books: Paul Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, International Economics , Theory and Policy, Addison-...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

ICELAND'S INTEREST RATE GOES UP TO 15,5 PERCENT

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From today's edition of Financial Times ( link ): "Iceland has the highest interest rates in Europe after the central bank raised r...
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IS HOOVERNOMICS BACK ON TRACK?

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Wall Street Journal recently reviewed ( link ) the part of the economic agenda proposed by Democratic presidential candidates compared to He...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

ALLAN H. MELTZER ON REGULATION

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Allan H. Meltzer wrote an article ( link ) on regulation published in Wall Street Journal: "The first principle of regulation is: Lawye...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

FISCAL FEDERALISM AND TAX COMPETITION: THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND

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Financial Times recently published an article ( link ) describing how fiscal federalism works in Switzerland. Contrary to conventional belie...

DEMOCRATS AND THE ECONOMY

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Stephen J. Rose and Anne Kim, writing for Wall Street Journal, wrote an article ( link ) about the democratic attitude towards the economy; ...

ICELAND'S INFLATION

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From WSJ's Real Time Economics ( link ): " Iceland’s central bank Tuesday unexpectedly raised its key interest rate by 125 basis p...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNY MUNKHAMMAR

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In your newest book called "Guide to Reform" you emphasized the significant importance of economic and structural reforms to pursu...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

ECONOMICS AND THE RULE OF LAW

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Last week, The Economist posted an article ( link ) describing the relationship between economics and the rule of law. Until recently, the r...
Monday, March 17, 2008

THE MIRAGE OF SWEDEN'S WELFARE STATE

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Today's edition of the Wall Street Journal includes an opinion ( link ) where the author describes how the costs of social engineering a...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

COMPETITIVE TEXAS vs. LAGGING OHIO

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Hillary R. Clinton and Barack Obama are racing around the states to win the primaries ( here and here ) . Recently, they've been fetchi...
Friday, March 14, 2008

UNCERTAINTY IN ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING

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Mr. Edmund Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, has written an opinion on economic uncertainty ( link ) published in Wall Street Journal. ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

ECONOMIC REFORMS AND THE POLITICAL CYCLE

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Johnny Munkhammar ( link ) recently explained the willingness and to implement market-based reforms as a political incentive of re-election....
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

AUSTRIA: ALPINE TAX HAVEN DEFENDS FINANCIAL PRIVACY LAW

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Austria firmly rejected the initiative from the European Union to ease and possibly remove the legislation that aims at client data privacy ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

OBAMANOMICS vs. McCAINOMICS

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The Economist has published an interesting article about the economic policy agenda proposed by Democratic candidates. Both, Hillary Clinto...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

REFORMS AND GROWTH: THE NEW SWEDISH MODEL

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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's prime minister delivered a lecture at London School of Economics and Political Science where he defined how ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE BENEFITS OF GLOBALIZATION

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The reality could hardly agree with growing anti-globalist tenstions in Western Europe ( link ) that globalisation boosts unemployment and t...
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